#Software Failure Help!
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Glad I could help. Iconx is one of those neat little tools that most folks
don't seem to know about. You can use it to create an entire environment,
if you want, using an elaborate script. You can copy files that are used a
lot to a RAM: disk for your session, to cut down on drive access and
increase speed, "cd" to any directory before staring up the main program,
and then have the whole thing cleaned up when you shut down (I do this when
I'm playing around with C, for example). Whatever you can do with a
script, you can do automagically from an icon with iconx.
– via Whap!
I keep forgetting about Iconx. I used it once, as a platform to launch an
ARexx script I wrote, that enabled me to format a floppy disk using the
fast file system (FFS). I stumbled around trying to get the script to
execute, then came across Iconx. Wrote an Iconx script that says "Rx
FastFileFloppyFormat" and I was off. (The rabbit Icon I adapted from
NoFastMem really gets raves from people who look at my System disk, too!
:^) I know I could have written an Iconx script, but I wanted an option to
cancel the formatting, plus I had the luxury of reading the directory of
the disk I want to format before proceeding.
The best thing about the Amiga is its flexibility and ease of use! I
havn't even scratched the surface of it. Glad I didn't get a 486! (But I
wish I had waited until now to get the 3000 – Ouch!)
Thanks again for your help!
— Dave